'Horus-Shed hunting in his chariot': two forgotten monuments

More than 400 Horus cippi depicting the child-god standing on the crocodiles are now kept in different Egyptian collections around the world. In this large corpus of the Horus cippi, a small group of slightly more than twenty items can be isolated, showing a common iconographical pattern: the ‘holy hunt’ of Horus-Shed in his chariot. After a short presentation of the pattern itself, the aim of this paper is to discuss two forgotten scenes belonging to this subcorpus: the first one is a lost stela, collected and partially published at the end of the nineteenth century by the German scholar Alfred Wiedemann; the second one is a painted scene, in the so-called ‘Alexander the Great’s Cenotaph’ in Kom Madi (Fayum), excavated by the Italian egyptologist Edda Bresciani.